Faculty Accomplishments

Andrew Scahill, founder of Rainbow Cult, was interviewed on Channel 9 News where they talked about his work as a film professor, celebrating two years of Rainbow Cult and going from a backyard movie night to selling out 7 shows at Meow Wolf Denver . The Rainbow Cult is hosting...

Michelle Comstock's new book, Composing Resonance: Culture and Collaboration in Sonic Practices , has been published. COMPOSING RESONANCE offers an important new cultural and rhetorical framework for situated sonic practices. Michelle Comstock and Mary Hocks demonstrate how sound artists and musicians' ritualized practices of embodied listening create an acute sense...

Andrew Scahill's Rainbow Cult was featured as the cover of Out Front Magazine for September 2024 as well as receiving a retrospective feature. They even did a piece for the magazine titled, "Become a Saint, Join the Rainbow Cult ", where "Welcoming new saints to the cult, Andy Scahill, draped...

Nicole Piasecki had a CNF piece adapted to radio on This American Life . It is available on the website and podcast app. The episode is called "Letters! Actual Letters!" and Nicole's story is "Act 1" . Be sure to give it a listen. A version of this essay first...

Emily Wortman-Wunder will have an essay that will come out in the fall issue of the Colorado Review . Also, the inaugural issue of Adjunctification that she has been involved with has finally gone online and it has an article by Emily and Anthony Ballas.

Jo Luloff received a fellowship from the Corporation of Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, New York in support of my novel-in-progress. She spent the month of July, 2024 at this artist and writers' residency. Yaddo was established in 1900, and it is one of the oldest and most storied artist residencies...

Bradford Mudge will be giving two conference presentations this fall, both on Joshua Reynolds and his portrait of Mai, recently purchased jointly by the NPG and the Getty. In addition, Professor Mudge has two essays forthcoming, one on the theory of portraiture and another on the self-portraits of Thomas Patch.

Colleen Donnelly has been leading Accessibility Operations Team out of the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, whose goal is to making the CU Denver campus accessible and inviting for all. Colleen has been highly engaged in disability and accessibility initiatives in the University. More information can be found here.

Wayne Miller's poem "Toward a Unified Theory," originally published in American Poetry Review , received a Pushcart Prize and was reprinted in the 2024 Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses anthology. The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is the most honored...

Following the monumental success of their sold-out showing of THE FIFTH ELEMENT, Rainbow Cult, the revolutionary force at the intersection of drag, community, and cinema, is thrilled to announce "JOYFUL NOISE: A Tribute to SISTER ACT," an unforgettable night of the Gospel According to St. Whoopi, enriched with drag performances...